Product Description: Jean works in a garage and consoles herself with alchol and perfunctory sex. Jean’s insistent neighbor, Dawn, and Dawn’s Irish laborer husband Mick, and Mick’s spineless friend, Len, all join her in a funny, drunken, sad celebration of their mutual affection and bleak lives...read more

Product Description: An unrivalled unofficial history of the rise, and partial fall, of fringe theater, Mike Bradwell's deadpan story is one of the funniest and angriest books to come out of theater today. As he travels through a counterculture peopled by scheming opportunists, dreamers, and prophets, Bradwell makes us marvel at his resilience and creativity...read more

Product Description: After his critically acclaimed departure to period drama with Topsy-Turvy, Mike Leigh returns to the more intimate explorations of working-class life that marked his early career with All or Nothing. Set in a London housing project over one long weekend, Leigh’s masterful and moving new film tells the story of Penny and Phil—a long-estranged couple brought together again after their son becomes suddenly and violently ill...read more

Offers an introduction to the crop circle phenomenon, including information on history, physical evidence, and paranormal experiences associated with these complex creations. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Susan Katz, in conversation with some of the top screenwriters working today, gives us an insider's look into the art, craft and business of screenwriting. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

One of a hand-picked selection of some of the most popular and cult-worthy titles on Faber and Faber's extensive list of film scripts.

Product Description: British filmmaker Mike Leigh began his career in the 1970s as a playwright and theater director. Later he made a number of films of varying lengths for British television and then moved into feature film production. Although well established in the U...read more

Product Description: In Bernard Kop's world, escape is always an escape from the inescapable, from one trap to another. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In "Topsy-Turvy" Mike Leigh, that master of contemporary British tragi-comedy, transports us back to 1880s London and the lives of those much-loved masters of comic opera, Gilbert and Sullivan. Leigh explores the collaboration of lyricist Gilbert, a complex individual childlessly married to a devoted wife and composer Sullivan, a brothel-hopping bon viveur with an American mistress...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Two young women who shared a flat at university meet again six years later. As they renew acquaintance with each other, their past comes flooding back, and in the course of a weekend they come face-to-face with the inadequacy of their lives and the diminishment of their dreams. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Secrets & Lies was awarded the Palme d'Or for Best Film at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. It tells the story of Hortense, a young black Londoner who goes in search of her birth mother. Hortense's voyage of discovery leads her to Cynthia - a depressed, unmarried, white woman who has uneasy relationships with both her second daughter and her brother...read more

Product Description: Smelling A Rat, Mike Leigh's classic comedy, is propelled by his "wonderful gift for conversation so rock-bottom-boring that is is hilarious." (Observer)

Following the syllabus of the British Judo A ssociation, Junior Judo provides an introduction to the spor t, with advice on how to dress, etiquette, terminology, trad itions, and step-by-step illustrations on the moves '

Product Description: Three screenplays by Mike Leigh. Naked presents a bleak picture of urban society, Life is Sweet is a gentle comedy in which the pain of everyday life is borne with a wry smile, and High Hopes is a comedy of class-ridden life in contemporary Britain.

Product Description: Book by Leigh, Mike

Product Description: British suburbanites Laurence and Beverly are entertaining their new neighbors, Angela and Tony as well as Susan, whose teenage daughter, Abigail is having a party to which Susan has been dis-invited. Over drinks and snacks, cliches and fatuous small talk abound.